Cabinet



June 15 1926. 1,588,771

H. B. RICHARDSON CABINET Filed July 11, 1925 gvvue'nfot I [Yam/fl?fink/0807a.

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Patented June 15, 1926.

UNITED STATES HOWARD 1B. RICHARDSON, 0F CLEMSON COLLEGE, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CABINET.

Application filed July 11, 1925. Serial No. 42,915.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in cabinets.

One object of the invention 15 to provide a cabinet which includes aplurality of storage compartments, normally disposed in coveringrelation to each other, and so arranged that certain of the compartmentsmay be moved with relation to the other compartments, whereby to permitaccess-to all of the com artments at the same time.

Another ob ect is to provide a cabinet of this character wherein certaincompartments are connected together for relative movement,simultaneously, with respect to the remaining compartments -which .arecon nected together.

A. further object is to provide eflicient supporting means for theconnected compartments, whereby such compartments will be held in properspaced relation whether in extended or withdrawn position.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the followingdescription when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cabinet in normal closed position.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the cabinet, certain of thecompartments being withdrawn to permit access to the differentcompartments.

Figure 3 is an enlarged horizontal sectional detail view, on the line 33of Figure '1, showing the roller.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawings, 10 represents apair of uprights, disposed at the front of the cabinet, while 11represents a similar pair of upri hts disposed at the rear of thecabinet. Disposed with their forward ends between the front uprights 10,and their rear ends between the rear uprights 11, are the verticallyspaced drawers 12 and 13, said drawers being secured to the front andrear uprights. A cover 14 is hinged at its rear end to the upper edge ofthe rear end wall of the upper drawer 12. The lower ends of the uprights10 and 11 are provided with suitable casters to permut easy movement of'the cabinet, about the room. The front end wall of each of the drawers12 and 13 is provided with a handle 15.

A second similar structure, consisting of .the front uprights 16, therear u rights 17, and the drawers 18 and 19, whlch are secured to theuprights 16 and 17 in the same manner as the drawers 12 and 13 aresecured to the uprights 10 and 11. These drawers 18 and 19 are, however,disposed respectively between the drawers 12 and 13, and below thedrawer 13, whereby when the drawers 18 and 19 are in withdrawn positiontheir front ends, which carry handles 20, similar to the handles 15,will be in vertical alinement with the fronts of the drawers 12 and 13,so that the cabinet presents the appearance of a vertical tier ofdrawers.

It will be noted that the rear uprights 17 are disposed for forward andrearward movement between the front and rear uprights 10 and 11, thelower ends of the uprights 16 and 17 being equipped with casters, sothat upon placing a hand on one of the drawers 12 or 13, and the otherhand in grasping relation to one of the handles of the drawers 18 or 19,and pressing backwardly on the first drawers, and at the same timepulling frow'ardly with the other hand, the portion of the cabinet whichcontains the drawers 18 and 19 will slide forwardly beyond the drawers12 and 13, so that access to the drawers may be had from the top.

Carried by the front uprights 10 are the rollers 21, which bear againstthe sides of the drawers 18 and 19, to render the inward and outwardmovement thereof easy. This is clearly seen in the detail sectionalview, Figure 3.

The uprights 17 are also provided with rollers indentical with therollers 21, and arranged in the same manner in said uprights forengagement with the sides of the drawers 12 and 13, as the drawers 18and 19 are pulled out or pushed in. While this construction andarrangement of the rollers of the uprights 17 are identical with that.

1. A cabinet comprising a set of quad-' rangularly spaced uprights,receptacles secured to and lying between the uprights in vertical spacedrelation, a second set of quandrangularly spaced uprights one pair ofwhich are arranged for movement in vertical planes at the sides of saidrece tacle and bewteen the first uprights, an receptacles secured to andlying between the second uprights in vertical spaced and alternaterelation with respect to the first receptacles for movement into and outof superimposed relation to the first recep tacles.

2. A cabinet comprising a set of quadrangularly arranged uprights, areceptacle secured to and lying between the upper ends of the uprights,a second receptacle secured to and lying between the uprights in spacedrelation below the first receptacle, a second set of quadrangularlyarranged uprights certain of which are disposed between the firstuprights outwardly of the sides of the said receptacles and movablebetween the first uprights, a receptacle secured to and lying betweenthe second uprights in position to move in a plane between the firstreceptacles, and a second receptacle secured to and lying between thesecond uprights in position below the first receptacle thereof andadapted to move in a planebelow the lower of the first receptacles.

In testimony whereof, I aifix my signature.

HOWARD B. RICHARDSON.

